The Old Song (1945)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The old song |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 1945 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Fritz Peter book |
| script |
Gerhard T. Buchholz , Fritz Peter Buch |
| production | Franz Tapper for Berlin Film (Potsdam) |
| music | Werner Bochmann |
| camera | Oskar Schnirch |
| cut | Elisabeth Neumann |
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The old song is a German feature film made in 1944 by Fritz Peter Buch based on literary models by Theodor Fontane . Winnie Markus and Ernst von Klipstein play the leading roles .
action
Berlin, in the 1880s. The young Count Erwin von Haldern meets the shy flower maker Stine at a festival. He quickly falls in love with the modest girl, who in turn is timidly courted by the gardener Franke, and a little later pays her respects. Stine begins to reciprocate the count's advances, and they both approach cautiously. They have a good time together, but Erwin has a problem and it's Uncle Richard. He is very class-conscious and expects Erwin to marry Käthe von Sellenthin, who is socially equal.
When Erwin attends a year-end ball with Stine on New Year's Eve, an acquaintance from Erwin's aristocratic environment approaches Stine. This Alf from Rexin compromises Stine, so that Erwin feels compelled to challenge the brazen Rexin to a duel. Erwin is seriously injured. Stine knows nothing about the events and only learns about Erwin's wound when Franke tells her about it. When she wants to visit Erwin, he is already on the mend. The count's servant, however, does not let the girl from the crowd go to him, and so Stine has to leave without having achieved anything. Käthe sees this and then speaks to Stine.
Entirely caught up in class awareness, the noble friend Erwins makes it clear to the flower maker that the differences in class between the lovers would make a future connection impossible. Stine gives up and doesn't want to press Erwin any further. But when he has completely recovered, the first thing that draws him to his great love. Erwin proposes marriage to Stine, but the deeply insecure young woman explains to him that both of them could never be happy with each other due to their different origins, especially since his aristocratic relatives would not approve of this connection. Then they split up. Stine marries her old admirer Franke, and Erwin finally marries Käthe von Sellenthin.
Production notes
The film was shot from May 18 to the end of July 1944 in the Amsterdam and The Hague film studios as well as in the Althoff studio in Potsdam- Babelsberg . The censorship took place on January 30, 1945, a youth ban was issued. The world premiere took place exactly two months later, on March 30, 1945 in the BTL-Lichtspiele on Berlin's Potsdamer Strasse. This made the old song one of the last films to be premiered in the German Reich.
The buildings were designed by Hans Ledersteger and Ernst Richter , the costumes were designed by Ludwig Hornsteiner. Production group leader (producer) Franz Tapper was also the production manager.
The two songs in the film, This can no longer happen to me and Hach, Waldemar , were performed by Grethe Weiser, who plays a chanson singer here.
The script was based on the novellas Stine (1890) and Irrungen, Wirrungen (1888) by Theodor Fontane based on a draft by Georg C. Klaren .
criticism
"Melodrama based on motifs from Fontane novellas about insurmountable class differences, shot as a German war production in Dutch studios."
See also
Web links
- The old song in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The old song at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The old song. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed November 11, 2015 .